“SCBs”
Stores a quantity of shield energy in individual “batteries” that can be used to replenish all kinds of shields.
They are heavy and require a lot of power.
Class A has the largest “batteries”, but class B has the highest total MJ.
Upon activation there is a spin-up time in which they generate large amounts of heat.
- This heat must be dealt with via heat sinks, thermal venting, or other means.
- Shields must remain up during this spin-up time for the SCB to actually work.
- Feedback Cascade railguns can “cancel” some or all of the SCB during the spin-up.
After the spin-up, the quantity of shields are added gradually, even when under fire.
SCBs can be activated in tandem – “double-” or “triple-banked” – for greater effect, but with greater heat.
For the SCB to be actually useful, it needs to restore more than a small amount of shield while you’re under fire. A ship with 2000 MJ of shields does not benefit from having only 100 MJ of shields restored. SCBs that are more than one size class below that of your shield are a waste of power and mass and should be avoided.
Engineering
| Specialized | Decreases boot time (but not spin-up time) and thermal load and increases the amount of shield given. Typically used in PvE, as the risk of Feedback Cascade railguns is greatly reduced. |
| Rapid Charge | Decreases spin-up time and increases shield reinforcement, but decreases the duration of effect and increases the boot time. The net effect is that you get your shields faster but you get somewhat fewer MJ. Typically used in PvP to decrease vulnerability to Feedback Cascade railguns. |
Experimental Effects
| Recycling Cell | Increases duration with a slight hit in reinforcement amount for a net positive. One of the two useful choices, more often used in PvP. |
| Boss Cells | Increases shield reinforcement at the cost of increased spin-up time. The increased spin-up is actually a help in PvE, as it decreases the heat per second generated by the SCB. It does give you longer vulnerability to Feedback Cascade rails. |
| Flow Control | Removes some of their power usage, but not the best choice. |
| Double Braced | A bit more integrity. Use module reinforcements instead. |
| Stripped Down | Removes a bit of mass, but not recommended. |